Kiss of Danger (The Dragon Legion Novellas) Read Online Free PDF

as if she were as anxious to caress him as he was to caress her. Alexander shed his clothing and boots with record speed, his boots falling to one side, his shirt and trousers to the other.
    “Your clothing is so strange,” she said, and a question filled her gaze. “I wouldn’t have known where to start.”
    Alexander didn’t want to talk about where he had been. Not yet. The tale would take too long and he wanted this reunion first.
    “Is that why you watch me so closely?” he teased. “To have me naked whenever you so choose?”
    “Maybe I’ll keep you naked for a while. Until you please me enough.” Katina laughed, then stopped, confusion lighting her gaze. She stood up and reached a fingertip to touch the tattoo on his upper arm, the one souvenir he still bore from the future. Alexander winced when she touched it, not because it hurt but because he didn’t want to explain all of that as yet. “A magical beast upon your skin,” she said with wonder, and met his gaze. She clearly was curious.
    “It doesn’t matter,” Alexander said, his voice rougher than he intended. He knew that once her questions began, she would not fall silent until she knew everything of where he had been. Her inquisitiveness was one trait he admired, but he needed her touch first. He put a fingertip on her lips, savoring their softness. “This first,” he urged, knowing he would beg if he had to. “I’ve been without you too long to keep to the thread of any story otherwise.”
    “So honest.” She smiled. “You never could lie.”
    Alexander shook his head. “Not to you.”
    Katina was clearly pleased by this. She drew him into her embrace, then granted him a thoughtful glance. “How many other women?” she whispered when he would have kissed her again. Her gaze was searching. “Just tell me that.”
    “None,” Alexander said with finality. “For there can be no other woman for me.”
    “Only you could have managed that feat,” she said with pride, which confused him.
    “I don’t understand.”
    “Your word is your bond, Alexander. I knew that long ago. It is something I admire about you.” She ran her hands over his head again and her eyes glowed. “Only you could have denied your pleasure so long to keep a pledge to me.”
    Alexander took that as an invitation. He kissed her and his embrace soon turned hungry, his passion for her contained far too long. Now that he was with Katina, he wasn’t certain how long he could last. He’d denied himself for so long, and his passion was a tide that couldn’t be denied. He moved them with purposed to the narrow bed, not wanting to rush her, but compelled by his body’s need. Katina smiled and leaned back, opening her thighs to him in invitation.
    She’d always understood him so well. Alexander couldn’t have refused her to save his life. He slid into her wet heat with a sigh, unable to remember when any sensation had felt so good.
    Or so right.
    Katina ran her hands over him, her delight in her eyes. Alexander rolled on the bed so that he was on his back and she was sitting astride him. She smiled as she pulled her tunic and longer chiton over her head then tossed them to the floor. He surveyed her, knowing she was even more beautiful than he had recalled. Her nipples were tight and dark, her breasts high and just large enough to fill his palm. Her waist was narrow and her belly not quite flat. He ran his hands over her, remembering how he had loved the look of her when she’d carried his son, and wondering if they would have more sons.
    The idea made his chest tighten. It seemed impossibly wonderful that he could have a future again, that he could plan his days and nights with his beloved, that the darkfire had given him such a gift as this.
    Then Katina unfastened her hair and shook out the braids, letting it fall over her shoulders like a dark veil. It was as glossy and thick as he remembered, as wavy as the curl of the ocean’s tide and darker than a river at